Insights and advice for founders going from idea to launch.
Most founders build first and validate later — and most of them waste months on something nobody wants. Here's a structured approach to testing your idea before writing a single line of code.
Going it alone is one of the hardest things in startups. But the failure points are predictable — and most of them happen long before the product is built.
From rough idea to live product, there's a clear sequence of stages that separates founders who ship from founders who spin. Here's what each stage demands — and what trips people up.
You have an idea and no idea what to do next. This playbook sequences the raw-idea-to-first-signal journey for solo founders in 2026.
Paul Graham's co-founder argument was right for its time. Here's an honest framework for deciding whether you still need one in 2026.
AI models are built to agree with you — a fatal flaw for startup validation. Here's how to prompt adversarially and get honest answers.
Fifty AI startup ideas for solo founders in 2026, each tagged Wide Open, Crowded, or Already Dead — with a one-line rationale for each.
The phase between having an idea and having an MVP has no name — but it has a sequence. Here's a six-step playbook through the messy middle.
A solo founder turned forty-seven untested ideas into $1,200 MRR in sixty days. The process that killed forty-four of them is the story.
The ChatGPT wrapper dismissal is lazy — but sometimes right. Seven questions to test whether your AI startup is actually defensible.
47 questions across five sections — problem, market, competition, founder fit, and early signal — to validate your startup idea in a weekend.
An honest three-way comparison of going solo, using an AI co-founder, and finding a human co-founder in 2026 — with a decision framework.
The 2am doubt spiral is not insight — it's anxiety in disguise. Here's how to name the specific fears and get unstuck by Monday morning.
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